A brain, traced.
FlyWire reconstructed the wiring of an adult fruit fly brain: 139,255 neurons. A wiring map is a research tool; it does not establish that a mind has been revived.
Read the 2024 research ↗A PERSONAL DIRECTIVE / A POSSIBLE FUTURE
They might
bring you back.
A revived body. A copy of your mind. A reconstruction from what you left behind.
Say whether they should. Record a directive someone can find and verify.
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THE INSTRUCTION
Do not
resurrect me.
No revival, reconstruction, or emulation.
In any form, from any substrate.
YOUR TERMS. ON RECORD.EXAMPLE / NOT RECORDED
01 / FLY CONNECTOMEWatch the loop ↗
8 research scenes / sources & credits
Eight distinct research scenes, edited into a 48-second loop. Excerpted, resized, muted and joined with fades; selected scenes cropped. These images do not demonstrate human resurrection.
FLY CONNECTOME
Dorkenwald et al. (2024), Neuronal wiring diagram of an adult brain. Nature, Supplementary Video 1. Source ↗
HUMAN IVF EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT
Currie, Ford, Benham Whyte et al. (2022), Supplementary Movie 10, Nature Communications Source ↗
EXTRA-UTERINE LAMB SUPPORT
Partridge et al. (2017), An extra-uterine system to physiologically support the extreme premature lamb. Nature Communications, Supplementary Movie 1. Source ↗
NEURONAL ORGANOID ACTIVITY
Zafeiriou et al. (2020), Developmental GABA polarity switch and neuronal plasticity in Bioengineered Neuronal Organoids. Nature Communications, Supplementary Movie 1 (calcium imaging). Source ↗
SCAFFOLD BIOPRINTING / 10×
Yang et al. (2024), A mechanical-assisted post-bioprinting strategy for challenging bone defects repair. Nature Communications, Supplementary Movie 1. Hydrogel scaffold fabrication; original footage at 10× speed. Source ↗
MOUSE EMBRYO CELL DIVISION
Skory, Moverley, Ardestani et al. (2023), Supplementary Movie 1, Nature Communications Source ↗
HUMAN ORGANOID GROWTH
Kessler et al. (2015), The Notch and Wnt pathways regulate stemness and differentiation in human fallopian tube organoids. Nature Communications, Supplementary Movie 1. Source ↗
BEATING HUMAN HEART ORGANOID
Lewis-Israeli et al. (2021), Self-assembling human heart organoids for the modeling of cardiac development and congenital heart disease. Nature Communications, Supplementary Movie 1. Day-15 iPSC-derived organoid, not a whole transplantable heart. Source ↗
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CAPABILITY IS NOT CONSENT
If they can bring you back,
should they?
A brain’s wiring can become data. That data can become a model. People are already connecting fly-brain models to simulated worlds and control tasks. Alongside that, researchers are learning to preserve and restore the function of organs. Whether those paths could ever bring a person back is an open question. Whether you would want that should be yours to answer.
A second life could mean a revived body, a digital emulation, or a reconstruction that only resembles you. Those are different propositions. You may refuse all of them, leave the door open, or set precise conditions.
Leave an instruction before someone else has to guess.
RESEARCH / NOT A PROMISE OF RESURRECTION
Pieces of a possible future.
Wiring becomes behaviour.
Developers are using fly-connectome connectivity inside networks for simulated drone control. The biological wiring is a starting point; the model, training and control interface also shape what it does.
Inspect the drone simulation project ↗Across the cold.
Researchers cryopreserved rat kidneys, rewarmed them, and transplanted them with life-sustaining function. Preserving an organ is a different challenge from reviving a person.
Read the 2023 research ↗Your answer, ahead of time.
We do not offer resurrection. We offer a way to record your decision, prove its authorisation, and leave a receipt someone can find.
How the directive works →No. Yes. Or only if.
Start with a simple decision. Use a template or set your own conditions.
Your passport. Your phone.
The native app reads the chip and creates a cryptographic proof. No wallet or account to set up.
A record they can find.
Keep your receipt. Make a public page if you want, with a name or an alias, and share your terms.
PUBLIC BY CHOICE
Some last words
are worth sharing.
A directory of people who chose to make their directives visible. Listing is optional. Your passport name is never filled in.
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